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Snowfall has been relentlessly sweeping west from far eastern Asia to Northern Europe over the past 4 weeks and it’s knocking on the door of the UK as we head towards the weekend. We now have a hemispheric snow cover equivalent to early January rather than early November as you can see below. Snowfall is well […]
Snow cover continues to expand across Eurasia ahead of schedule thanks to a weak polar vortex and persistent -AO induced northern blocking. Moscow and Kiev both woke to their first snowfall this morning with 20cm locally. Kiev, Ukraine last night. Moscow before daybreak this morning. This cold trend doesn’t appear to wane but intensify as we head for […]
At this time last year, the polar vortex was strong and continuing to strengthen, likely influenced by the heat discharge emitted by the oncoming Super El Nino with a firm low over high pressure hemispheric 500mb pattern. This laid to dominant zonal, oceanic influence on both North America, Europe and indeed Asia. This year it’s been weak and this along with a […]
By: Christopher C. Burt , 7:30 AM GMT on September 07, 2016 Hottest Temperature Ever Measured in September for Europe UPDATE: An intense heat wave has occurred in recent days in the Iberian Peninsula with a site in Spain, Sanlucar La Mayor, measuring 46.4°C (115.5°F) on Monday, September 5th. This (if verified) would be the […]
Typhoon Nida made landfall around 3.35am near Hong Kong Tuesday morning packing damaging winds and flooding rain significantly disrupting transportation and infrastructure with schools and businesses closing. Several people we’re injured due to dozens of trees falling along with the collapse of scaffolding. The wind tunnel effect plays a major role here. Gusts of 93 mph we’re recorded while over […]
By: Christopher C. Burt , 10:45 PM GMT on July 22, 2016 Hottest Reliably Measured Air Temperatures on Earth As Jeff Masters mentioned in his recent blog, a temperature of 54.0°C (129.2°F) was observed at Mitribah, Kuwait on July 21st. According to the Kuwait Meteorological Department this was the hottest temperature ever measured in the […]
Tom Moore Published: July 22, 2016 Meteorologists encounter weather records all of the time. There are minor ones, like daily records, and there are some that are literally mind-numbing. The nations of Kuwait and Iraq have presented us with the latter over the past couple of days, as extreme heat has placed a choke hold […]
Associated Press Published: July 23, 2016 At least 154 people have died and 124 are left missing in northern China due to some of the region’s worst flooding in years, officials said Saturday. The deluge was triggered by torrential rain that led to landslides and destroyed homes across the country. A majority of the fatalities […]
By: Jeff Masters , 3:01 AM GMT on July 22, 2016 It was a historic day in the annals of meteorology on Thursday, July 21, 2016 in the Middle East, where the temperature in Mitribah, Kuwait soared to an astonishing 54°C (129.2°F). If verified, this would be Earth’s hottest temperature ever reliably measured outside of […]
Brits may complain about the ‘heat’ here but for the folks of the Middle East and particularly Iraq they would laugh at our complaint and would find our daytime 30s quite cool even during the dark hours of night. In fact night time lows are barely going below 37C which of course was the new July UK […]
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